And
is there anything surprising in one who passes from divine contemplations to the
evil state of man, misbehaving himself in a ridiculous manner; if, while his
eyes are blinking and before he has become accustomed to the surrounding
darkness, he is compelled to fight in courts of law, or in other places, about
the images or the shadows of images of justice, and is endeavouring to meet the
conceptions of those who have never yet seen absolute justice?”